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Guwahati: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi took to X on August 16 to blast the Union and Assam governments for failing to use disaster relief funds. He pointed to a new Comptroller and Auditor General report showing widespread mismanagement. Money sits idle. Citizens suffer.
Gogoi highlighted that the Union government approved Rs 11,474 crore for the National Disaster Response Fund in 2024-25. Officials only sent Rs 5,356 crore to the states. That leaves Rs 6,118 crore stuck in federal coffers. Beyond that, 75 percent of the National Disaster Mitigation Fund and over 83 percent of special state assistance remain unspent.
These numbers align with CAG findings that disaster cash in Assam sat unused as of March 2025. Gogoi mocked the government's Maximum Governance, Minimum Government slogan in the face of the ongoing flood crisis. Assam continues to reel from this year's deluge. The disaster has hit multiple districts and killed over 100 people.
The Congress leader claims the state and central leadership are failing the public. "The reality is a double-engine government unable to ensure that disaster funds reach people when they need them most," he stated. He insisted that the Assam government has repeatedly failed to put allocated disaster cash to work.
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